LEXICAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE TRANSLATION OF CHILDREN’S FICTION AS A WAY TO BUILD A MAGIC WORLD (THE CASE STUDY OF J.K. ROWLING’S NOVEL “THE ICKABOG” AND ITS TRANSLATION INTO RUSSIAN)

Abstract

The article deals with the study of the practical implementation of lexical transformations in the translation of children’s fiction from English into Russian. In this article, the author dwells on such lexical transformations as concretization, generalization, lexical addition, lexical omission, antonymic translation, compensation, found in the Russian translation of the fairy tale “The Ickabog” by Joanne K. Rowling. The author demonstrates the use of these transformations by the translator on specific examples, analyzing the choice of one or another transformation to convey the semantics of the original. The article may be of interest to translation theorists and practicing translators. In addition, the examples analyzed during the work on the article, as well as other passages from the fairy tale, can be offered to students for their own translation.